MBP & Mac OSX: First Looks

Alright, since I opened up my MBP today here's my thoughts on my "switch".

First off, I'm glad I made it. Mac OSX is awesome with its architecture (so far). The hardware is impressive, and boots extremely quick into Mac OSX. I like how it looks, how light it is, and how sturdy it is. The screen is awesome, with the correct amount of brightness and vividness.

Onto the operating system, Mac OSX. I like how crisp and clean it is. Sure there are things I don't know about it yet, but thats the fun of getting into something new. I like the dock and how it organizes applications. The fun little animation to get opened applications to "slide" back and forth in the dock is nice, albeit that its more of a gimmick. None the less, that shows that the operating system is performance ready.

I already dived into the Boot Camp and virtualization world... First off I put in Boot Camp v1.4 and installed Windows XP Pro. It went very smoothly from start to finish. After I installed all the drivers, I went ahead and installed VMWare Fusion on the Mac OSX side and used the Boot Camp partition to get into Windows. Everything worked like a charm. Even Expose, which I absolutely love. Windows applications each show up in Expose, and I can quickly launch any Windows application from Fusion's Launcher tool.

Anyway, thats what I have discovered so far. This weekend I will post a more refined and detailed review of my experiences with the MBP.

P.S.: The windows task bar is now meaningless in my life! I love it.

 

Congrats on your new MacBook Pro, and thanks for your thoughts and insights, dbam .

 

congratulation on your new macbook pro! its sure is a nice notebook

MAC OS X has been very great! i love it! it really offer nearly headache-less ownership experience

though i must say one thing. the MAC OS X windows management system is optimised for use with huge/high res. screen. and that the finder sucks. as you'll soon see..

congrats again, and enjoy! you most probably will

 

Yeaps. Hopefully that will change in Leopard; so far the Finder is looking better on Leopard but not significantly better. In the meantime QuickSilver is very nice .

 

More potential switchers should have your open attitude. They certainly would discover that the grass can be greener outside of the Gate's Garden.

 

Thanks wobble! Actually, so far I find the Finder application O.K. Its not the best but it works.

Details to come, soon.

 

Finder is inferior to Explorer, but the problem that I find is that blind fen seem to insist that finder "pwnz" Explorer, one thing I love about OSX is Expose, its so awesome for multitasking I still stick to the Windows Taskbar, at least the documents have names lol and don't look like the same white page with a big blue "w" on it. At least on Leopard the Dock seems to be getting as good as ObjectDock for PC's (don't argue which came first, they both came from the same source, same with how jobs and gates stole the idea of a windowed OS from Xerox)

 

I'm not one of those blind Mac fanboys (anything but that actually, even ask Sam ) but I think one key thing about finder that makes it better than explorer is that it doesn't crash, as explorer does every so often. Granted, restarting explorer after a crash is quite easy, but the fact that it crashes is in itself pretty pathetic.

 

Pft, the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence. If you have Windows you want OSX. If you have OSX Tiger you want Leopard. If you have Leopard you want Linux. If you have Linux you want Vienna. If you have Vienna you'll want to be able to plug in Matrix-style. If you become Neo, you'll want to become a god. If you become a god you'll want to become...uh..well anyways...

 

This guy's still on the honeymoon, and he's barely lifted up the dress on this thing.

Negatives are going in one ear and out the other at this point. Give him time.